Asian and Asian American culture is making its way into mainstream media through recent movies and TV shows highlighting the lives and experiences of Asians and Asian Americans. Popular films like ...

As an Asian-American myself, I like to attribute most of our ethnicity’s success to the hard work we put in. But I’ve come to realize that a narrow mindset is what’s feeding into the dangerous model ...

For years, a stereotype concerning the supposed academic dominance of Asian Americans has crept its way into American culture. However, a recent report by a national commission now challenges the ...

You’re having a rough day. It’s raining outside, and the shoes that you just washed last week are soaked in mud. You forgot your homework at home, and just found out that the test on your least ...

In ABC's recent prime-time sitcom Selfie, Asian-American actor John Cho stars as the charming, successful, and romantic male lead Henry Higgs—a refreshing shift from the history of desexualized Asian ...

In their book, The Myth of Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin (2008) write about a young Chinese American woman named R.W.-- who murdered her mother by ...

(RNS) — ‘Emergent Dharma’ will offer essays from 11 Asian American women writers who confront the whitewashed, patriarchal and model-minority myths embedded in dominant understandings of American ...

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